@JBStillFlying - I have no dog in this fight and no guess as to whether the early apps were 19k or not, just think we need to have a Scav item that involves parents, betting and consumption of an electronic device. 
No idea if they have multiple admitted student open houses and only invite students to certain ones, but the admitted student open houses my son was invited to this year are in April. If those are the only ones, we might have a while to wait to see if you have to eat your laptop.